#ultimate guitar

[fuckyeahvanhalen86-95]

Sammy Hagar said that performing Van Halen on the "Best of All Worlds" tour made him feel like he and Michael Anthony "own" the band's catalog. He also reflected on being completely left out of Alex Van Halen's memoir, "Brothers."

The Red Rocker's career retrospective tour received a very warm welcome from the fans, especially since it had two former members of Van Halen performing classics from both Roth and Hagar eras after Alex Van Halen's ill-fated all-star tribute to his late brother Eddie fizzled out.

Hagar has been vocal about why he believes in the importance of having the band's material performed live. With a Vegas residency coming after the very successful tour, he told Rolling Stone in a recent interview that being the only person associated with Van Halen who's still playing the music makes him feel like he "owns" it:

"The whole Van Halen catalog, mainly my catalog…. I feel like I own it now, because nobody else can do it. It's like there's no one that can do that catalog except a cover band. Mikey and I, we feel like we own it, and we feel this obligation to the music and to the fans to carry it on. It was the most expensive tour I've ever had. It costs more than the Van Halen Monsters of Rock tour to take this tour on the road."

The recent months have also been marked by Alex Van Halen returning to the spotlight after keeping away from it in the years that followed his brother's passing.

The reason for this is "Brothers", a new memoir that ends with the demise of the band's first David Lee Roth era. Asked to comment on being completely left out of the book, Hagar offered:

"It's sad. I haven't read the whole book, but I've seen all the excerpts, and I heard some of the interviews. It breaks my heart, because if I think what Alex is going through, losing his brother, never played with anybody else in his life, and then his health… When I saw how rickety he is, I realized, 'No wonder he's not answering my call when I say, 'Do you want to go out and play with us?' He can't."

"That breaks my heart, because I can only put myself in those shoes and say, 'What if I couldn't sing and perform anymore?' The thing that I did my whole life, the thing I devoted my life to, the thing that made me rich and famous and gave me the most beautiful life on the planet, and all of a sudden I can't do that anymore? I would feel like I was robbing the fans, to start with. When you put yourself in his shoes, I'm saying, 'Okay, I feel sorry for him.'"

Hagar added:

"Why he left me out, I would like to hear him explain that someday, because I don't get it completely. I know that he's bitter about some things, whatever that is… It’s like, 'If you don't want that era, that even gives me more justification to say I own it then,' because no one else can do it, and he can't do it even without me. It makes it easier for Mike and I. We're sitting there going, 'Okay, I guess we own this,' and we have the obligation to bring this to the fans to keep this music alive, keep it live and alive."

"This music is too good to throw away. When you see the way these fans react, like I said, when we go out and play these songs. When we played '5150' and 'Summer Nights,' it's like, 'Oh, my God.' You're sitting there going, 'Is this real? These people are happy.'"

[thornestar]

Doing the Lords Work! I added Boulet Brothers-All Hallows Eve to ultimate guitar tabs.

[smallsies]

apparently, ultimate guitar doesn't accept tabs for unreleased songs - which, cool, whatever, but i know i've seen them on there before? & i've avidly used uguitar for years without ever running into this before ,, not a big deal by any means, just bizarre lol. i guess i won't be sharing them with the world

[senormary]

why are lovejoy fans the worst people to write tabs for ultimate guitar 😭

those bitches will make up random notes and when you mention it they get mad and call you stupid

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[tvsart]

Who doesn't love some big?

[fuckyeahvanhalen86-95]

Sammy Hagar explained why he let Jason Bonham go from "Best of All Worlds" and hired Kenny Aronoff instead, praising the latter as "one of the greatest drummers on the planet."

So far, Sammy Hagar's triumphant "Best of All Worlds" career retrospective tour has been nothing but good feels and crazy fun. The one thing that contrasted the otherwise exuberant atmosphere was when Jason Bonham confirmed he wouldn't be joining Hagar, Michael Anthony, and Joe Satriani for the upcoming Vegas residency and other future exploits.

The drummer admitted he was "a little shocked" when he found out that the Red Rocker would be continuing with another longtime collaborator, Kenny Aronoff, who had been brought in as a temporary replacement when Bonham had to step down in late August due to a family emergency. Nevertheless, there seems to be no bad blood between the two camps, with Bonham noting he still loves Hagar "to bits."

On the other side, Hagar told Rolling Stone in a recent interview that the reasons for going forward with Aronoff were twofold. Reflecting on the fact that the drummer delivered a smashing performance despite jumping in at the last minute, Hagar offered:

"Yeah, and that's why he is still in the band. That's why we're moving forward with him. There's two reasons. Number one, he's one of the greatest drummers on the planet. I think he's been on more million-selling records than any musician in the world. And he did so well on this tour, and he plays with Joe on a full-time basis."

"Keeping this 'Best of All Worlds' band together is difficult when you got Jason doing his thing, you got Joe doing his thing, you got Mike and I. We need our beach time and our taco nights, Taco Tuesdays and stuff. Trying to get it together, it really helps by having Kenny's schedule be with Joe. If Joe's available, Kenny's available, and it's not trying to put pieces together."

He added:

"Kenny's right here. We can rehearse any day of the week. And he blew my mind. I played with Kenny in Chickenfoot, and he blew my mind then too, because when we auditioned him, he learns every song. 'Tell me what songs we're playing.' 'Okay, here they are.' He charts them out and he sits there, and he fuckin' can read it, and play it with soul and power perfectly, just one time, the first time he plays it. If that don't blow a musician’s mind, I don't know what would, especially these kinds of songs. These songs are crazy. They're fuckin' Van Halen arrangements."

Looking back on the situation which led to Aronoff's arrival, Hagar offered:

"Jason wasn't sure when he was going to go, and we kept saying, 'Well, hey, we gotta know, we gotta know.' Then all of sudden he said, 'Look, my mom took a bad turn. I gotta go.'"

"It was a day off, and I hit Kenny. I sent him a live recording of the set. We knew it a week ahead of time, that things were possibly going to happen, but anyway, he flew out. He got in at six in the morning. He went to bed, woke up at noon, went to the stage, set his drums up with the guy, got his stuff all set up right, and went through the set a couple of times."

"We came in for a soundcheck, went through the things he had questions for. We played that night in Cincinnati. It was fucking great."

[spruudelsoda]

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[str4berryg4shes]

This dude has no idea how to play the guitar

[turnaboutsisterz]

this is dang and ronpa

[onymonch]

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[makerofmadness]

time to settle this once and for all

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